River
Episode #2
Episode 2 | 55m 23sVideo has Closed Captions
With grief at the death of his colleague, River's mental fragility is further strained.
Still wracked with grief at the death of his colleague, River's mental fragility is further strained as he begins to suspect that the man he chased to his death was innocent.
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River
Episode #2
Episode 2 | 55m 23sVideo has Closed Captions
Still wracked with grief at the death of his colleague, River's mental fragility is further strained as he begins to suspect that the man he chased to his death was innocent.
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- Do you hallucinate, have visions, or believe you see those who are now dead?
- Yes.
- Detective Sergeant Jackie Stevenson was a brave and invaluable member of the police service.
- [Rosa] You witnessed the murder of your colleague less than three weeks ago.
- You can't bring Stevie back.
- What does she know?
- (laughs) Exactly.
(John laughing) Exactly.
- [Rosa] Do you see ghosts?
- [John] I don't believe in ghosts.
- [Rosa] And what do you see?
- Manifests.
(punch thuds) (punches thudding) - We're all sad, John, all broken.
I'm glad it was you by her side when she died.
- River, Detective Sergeant King.
- Is that my babysitter?
- [Bridie] We're trying to link that car to Stevie's murder, otherwise you've chased an innocent man to his death.
His girlfriend is expecting a baby.
She's already gone to the press.
- [Woman] Yeah, yeah, there he is!
There is the murderer!
(curtain rolls) - I didn't do it.
(suspenseful music) (suspenseful music) (clock ticking) (fabric rustling) (suspenseful music) Can't sleep?
Guilt does that to you.
What would I shoot a pig for?
Some of them are my best customers.
(mouth blows) - Then who did?
Then who did?
(clock ticking) (siren wailing) (footsteps thudding) (upbeat music) ♪ Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh-Ooh-Ooh-Ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh-Ooh-Ooh ♪ (Stevie chuckles) ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ I'm in the mood for dancing ♪ ♪ Romance ♪ - Still smells of Chinese.
Didn't you save a fortune cookie?
♪ I'm in the mood for chances ♪ ♪ I do like dances ♪ ♪ Ooh, so come on and hold me tight ♪ (wrapper rustling) ♪ I'm in the mood, babe ♪ ♪ So let the music play ♪ ♪ Ooh, dancing, dancing ♪ (John chuckles) ♪ I'm in the groove, babe ♪ ♪ So get on and let your body sway ♪ ♪ Sway, I'm in the mood for dancing ♪ ♪ Romancing, you know I shan't ever stop tonight ♪ ♪ I'm in the mood for dancing ♪ - They're burying me tomorrow.
♪ Feel like dancing ♪ ♪ Ooh, ooh, from head to my toes ♪ ♪ Take me again, and heaven, who knows ♪ ♪ Just where it will end ♪ ♪ So dance, yeah, let's dance ♪ ♪ Come on and dance, ooh-ooh-ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh-Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ♪ ♪ So dance, yeah, let's dance ♪ ♪ Come on and dance, ooh-ooh-ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh-Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh-Ooh, in the mood ♪ ♪ Dancing, romancing ♪ (distorted music) ♪ I'm in the mood for dancing, romancing ♪ (distorted music) (suspenseful music) - Feel no guilt, inspector.
- I'm not talking to you.
- Guilt has quick ears to an accusation.
- I'm not talking to you today!
(distorted static) - I have always thought a country should be judged on how it treats its insane, rather than its sane, the stranger on our shores, rather than those already home.
(train rumbling) Just do it.
Just let go, River.
(distorted music) (train rattling) (breaks squealing) (tense music) - [Reporter] Last night (speaks faintly), the 26-year-old man who had been known as Christopher Riley.
Officers investigating the drive-by shooting in October of Detective Sergeant Jackie Stevenson, believe Riley may have had key information relating to the incident.
Girlfriend, Tia Edwards spoke to our local affairs correspondent, Alexis Wilby.
- [Alexis] With only weeks to go until the birth of her baby, the death of Christopher Riley has caused my client considerable distress.
Fundamental questions need to be asked.
Why is this officer still working when this young woman's boyfriend has died?
My client had a bright check ahead of her.
She'd just enrolled in a course for nursing, she's looking forward to the birth of her baby.
Now that future is shattered.
(suspenseful music) (keyboard clacking) (suspenseful music) (suspenseful music continues) - You know you don't need to carry all those files.
They're all digitized now, and it'll take you twice as long.
- You talk too much.
- If I don't talk, then we have nothing but air.
(tense music) (buttons clicking) (tense music) - We talk, she crosses the road.
She stops halfway, she turns her head.
Now there's a look of recognition.
If Riley was driving that car, maybe she knew him.
- Yes, of course.
- [John] Did we ever arrest him?
- River, we found Stevie's DNA.
- Maybe there was a grudge.
- Inside the car.
- Inside?
- [Chrissie] Mm.
It nails Riley to the shore off the hook.
You're right, there was a look of recognition.
She'd been in that car.
They're asking the questions we should be asking.
What was a respected officer doing fraternizing with a known fund dealer?
- No, don't do that.
- Was there anything, anything different about her?
You worked with her that day.
You went for dinner for, Christ's sake.
You must have talked about something.
- We talked about nothing.
We worked and then we had lunch, and then we worked some more, went for Chinese.
She was not fraternizing with a drug dealer.
- Then what was she doing in that car?
You can't deny where she comes from.
Her family are alibied.
They used to run half of East London.
She sent her own brother down.
A betrayal like that, that family never came back from it.
Tonight at the wake, if you see anything, if you get a sense of anything... River, please.
Marcus is waiting on your psych's report, so please, even if you don't think it, even if you don't feel it, just try, please, try to act like a normal person.
(tense music) (water splashing) (John gasping) - Breathe, in, out, in and out.
We've been here before, you just pretend.
- DNA inside the car, anything else you didn't tell me?
- Your collar's not straight.
We worked, we had lunch, we worked some more, we went for Chinese, we talked about nothing, really.
- I don't remember.
- Loss of memory is a sign of mental decline.
- I don't remember.
- If you put 30 things on a tray, a person would only remember, on average, nine.
- That's ridiculous.
- Close your eyes.
(suspenseful music) - Soap, towels, hair in third sink, cracked ceiling, mirror chipped, fire extinguisher, broken cubicle door, fan, bin, chewing gum on sink.
10, I got 10.
- You've burned your shirt.
I've got spare one hanging up in my locker if- - It won't fit.
- Right.
- Go back through the CCTV footage from the Riley case.
Look for anything they missed.
Thank you.
(footsteps thudding) - John.
- [John] Sir?
- The coroner has already ruled accidental death on Riley.
You got away with it.
There are procedures put in place to protect police officers from wrongful dismissal, so it may take me time, but this isn't the place for your, River.
I expect your psychiatric report to support me in this.
(gate clanking) (suspenseful music) - Uh, watch yourself.
Riley's girlfriend's been removed from the front desk.
She was demanding to speak to you.
(door bangs) - [Riley] Where are my flowers?
- For a skunk dealer?
- I was still a person.
In Colorado, I'd be considered a pharmacist.
- In Colorado you can own an AK-47 and graze your lamb on public property.
- Hey yo, who you talking to you, bro?
You're nut-o and I'm not gonna lie there if you need it.
Are you nuts (indistinct)?
(suspenseful music) (cars whirring) (upbeat music) (crowd chattering indistinctly) (woman laughing) (suspenseful music) (woman laughing) (suspenseful music) (upbeat music) - [Man] Pigs, they're stuffed.
(indistinct) she thinks she needs.
- There seems to be an amnesty on smoking.
At least the beer is free.
- He's boring me.
- Oh, thank you.
Well, no more for you then, eh?
- [Jimmy] Your money's no good here.
- Hello Jimmy.
- So you got him?
What was he?
Some smacked out kid looking at how to pop at a cop?
Why did it have to be my sister?
(upbeat music) There was a time I could've put a gun at somebody's head and found him meself.
Now I'm a reformed, man.
- Could've been gone a long time.
- Old sins cast long shadow.
- Everyone deserves a second chance.
- I decapitated a man, River.
- I know.
(upbeat music) - Watch your back tonight.
(patrons chattering indistinctly) (upbeat music) (microphone squealing) - All right, darling, all right, darling.
I'm singing your song, sweetheart.
♪ Since you've been gone ♪ ♪ Since you've been gone ♪ ♪ No, my head can't take it ♪ ♪ Could I be wrong ♪ ♪ But since you've been gone ♪ ♪ You cast a spell so brightly ♪ ♪ If ♪ (distorted music) ♪ I would never do wrong ♪ (melancholy music) (footsteps thudding) - I'm embarrassed.
She's a cow when she's sober, and Nelly Furtado when she's drunk.
I don't even know what song I sang.
Is there any wonder I left?
And in the morning they'll bury me, and the one person who will be missing, the one person who should be there... - I'm not family.
- Who says?
Who says?
- [Tia] Murderer, murderer, murderer!
He didn't do it, he didn't do it!
Look at me, look at me!
(punches thudding) Murderer!
You killed him!
- Bridie!
- [Tia] This time, he was gonna be okay!
You killed him!
- [Bridie] All right!
- No, he killed him!
He didn't do it!
- [Bridie] All right!
All right, love.
It's all all right, go on!
Oh, get yourselves inside.
Go on, inside.
There, there, love.
There, there.
When's that baby due, huh?
Well, you look about ready to drop.
I hope they take it away from you.
Is it that word murderer, druggie, smack head scum's?
- [Tia] No!
- [Chrissie] It's empty.
- I want you to leave my buggy, you leave my buggy!
- It's all right, it's all right, it's fine.
There's no baby.
- Please, just leave it alone!
- All right, there.
- [Tia] Leave it now.
(siren wailing) - She wants to talk to me.
- She assaulted you!
- Oh, she knows something.
- She's a rambling mess.
We've interviewed her before.
Can't get any sense out of it.
She just keeps saying the same thing, "He didn't do it."
- Well, maybe he didn't.
- She was sectioned 10 months ago for drug-induced psychosis.
That's what happens when you smoke too much skunk.
- Let me try, at least.
- We're ringing around trying to find a unit that can take her in.
It's the safest place for her.
- Her and Riley's first child was taken away from them.
- Yes, and now she's pushing around an empty buggy, for Christ's sake.
- Exactly!
Come on, she's got nothing back here.
- [Tia] Give me my buggy!
Give my buggy immediately!
- [John] Let her have the buggy!
Tia, you can take the buggy.
- If I think that she's a danger to herself or to you, Rosa sits in with you.
She's the appropriate adult.
If she thinks Tia can't handle it, she will call it.
(footsteps thudding) - You're gonna take this one.
You are, you are, you are!
- I don't have that power.
- No, you all have the power.
All of you!
- [Rosa] Tia, sit down.
- No, just give me a chance.
- You only give up your power when you don't think you have any.
- [Tia] I'll be a good mom.
- You can show them.
You can show them that you can be better than this, Tia.
Tia.
(paper rustling) Side affects hitting you hard today?
What are you on, risperidone?
Should take care of that if she takes them every day.
- I've stopped taking them.
- That won't help, Tia.
- No, I looked it up, it's bad for the baby.
- If you take your medication and get well, you're showing that you can be responsible for yourself and for a child.
If you don't, you won't see the world straight.
- Well, that can be overrated.
Right, Tia?
But if you don't, they will think that you're more of a threat to the baby than you actually are, and you will love that baby, won't you?
- They said it was a good size on my last scan.
- Then it's a boy?
- [Tia] Everyone says that.
- What?
Two to one, I'm right.
(melancholy music) You went for that scan the same night my colleague was killed, and Riley wasn't with you.
Where was he?
If he didn't do it, who did?
Who was driving the car?
Tia, who drove the car that night?
- You're a queen when you were pregnant, and then you're nothing, you're nothing.
They're gonna take this one away, too.
- Turn them off.
Turn off the lights.
- [Tia] They're gonna take this one away.
(Tia panting) - What the hell is going on?
She's in no state to be interviewed.
- [Chrissie] Marcus.
- He's in no state to question her.
- [John] How long did you live with Riley?
- A long time.
He looked after us, he took care of us, but he wouldn't help with the baby.
- Us?
- We were gonna do it right this time.
He got me the car, and a cot, a nice cot, and he bought stuff.
- Who did?
Who got you the car?
You're not talking about Riley.
- Riley didn't care about the baby.
He cared about drugs.
- I had to dope her up.
It leveled her out.
You try living with that kind of crazy, a nut!
- River?
River.
- I want this interview stopped.
- Marcus, this is my case.
- Then handle it better than you are.
(suspenseful music) - I want to help you, Tia.
You're clean now, that's good, but I need you to tell me who you're talking about.
You have to talk to me.
You have to trust me.
- We were gonna do it right this time.
We got a buggy and we got baby wipes, and we were gonna look after our baby!
- Who?
- We were gonna do it right!
- Tia, who?
Who's we?
(door bangs) - No, no, no, they're gonna take it away from me!
No, no, please, tell them I can do it this time!
I could be a good Mum!
Go on, tell them I could do it this time!
Please, don't let them take it away from me!
It's different now!
You promised, you promised to help me!
(footsteps thudding) - She closed down.
You won't get anything.
- You switched the light off.
- The buzzing, the buzzing gets in your head.
How can anyone think?
- I, um, I have concerns that Riley's death is affecting her mental stability.
She's- - She wasn't talking about Riley.
- [Tia] No!
No!
Please, don't, please!
No, no!
Just kill me!
Get off me now!
No, no!
(suspenseful music) (footsteps thudding) (tense music) - So who was she talking about then?
- Someone who cares for her, someone who was helping her.
If I'd only had a longer time with her.
- You always were good with the window lickers.
It's nice to see you finds your tribe.
- [John] Hm.
- Admit it, you miss me.
(can thumps) - If that's a Dr. Pepper, it's mine.
Still got stuck halfway down.
(vending machine rattling) (can pops) Swallowed my quid.
(Ira sighs) There are no images of Riley in the car until the day after Stevie was killed.
Before that, he's always on foot, sprawl of kids around him, running from, it looks like.
He's not got that car any time before Stevie died.
- [John] So who had it?
- Then I noticed some date discrepancies, some logging details that didn't look right.
October 21st, 2103.
October 21st, 2103.
(suspenseful music) He was two miles away, and he certainly wasn't driving that car.
When Stevie was shot- - Riley was on the other side of town.
- Finally.
I might be a skunk dealer, but I'm no murderer.
I save that for you, River.
Gotta find yourself another man.
- You have to release it to the press.
- [Chrissie] We went over everything.
- [Ira] You missed it.
- Yes, thanks for that, Einstein.
You know you've made this twice as hard for yourself.
You know what the press will do to you?
- [John] I was wrong.
- They will crucify you.
- He was innocent.
- Brilliant.
The boss has asked for Stevie's accounts again.
- For what?
What, Weight Watcher subscriptions?
Payments for takeaways?
- And 10 grand, withdrawn a week before she died.
They're asking me if she had a second phone.
It's an obvious question.
What am I gonna do with this.
Ira, could you just give us a minute, please?
(door bangs) If this kicks off, I don't know if I can do this anymore.
Grace is a hormonal mess, Nina is 12, and still wets the bed.
Joe's idea of a gap year is not getting up till 12 o'clock, and Peter, don't have a fourth.
Fourth is the last in and you never catch up with them.
Go home, clean yourself up.
(train rumbling) (water dripping) - Mirtazapine.
(mirror bangs) Someone else is skipping their meds.
For some, it's a little rum and Coke, a little pop of pill, little line, bit of puff.
Maybe you should try it, River.
You do what you have to do.
(water dripping) (tense music) You've read my file now.
I've been in care since I was three, and robbing by the time I was 10.
You think that girl Tia's any better?
The baby'd wind up the same.
All that crap doesn't end up in a sea.
It washes back up, back to you, but I was still worth something.
I was still worth something to someone.
Can you say the same thing?
(water dripping) (rain puttering) - No one ever called me Jacqueline.
I hate carnations.
(rain puttering) Don't let her bully you, and don't eat anything.
(car door bangs) - [John] Hello, Frankie.
- All right?
Now I'm going to bed til it gone five.
- Will you hurry up?
(man speaking faintly) - [Woman] Bernadette.
(man speaking faintly) - The service is at St. Mark's, at the top.
Father James died last year, so it won't be him, but we've a very nice gay taken over.
What?
- You can't say that, Mum.
- Everyone knows he is.
You get upstairs and finish getting ready, Frankie.
It's just family.
- Righty.
There'll be a story coming out in the news today about Riley.
He didn't do it.
- No, no, no.
- We're releasing it to the press.
He was two miles away, but it wasn't him.
- Who then?
- It's all right, Mommy.
They'll go back to watching us.
- Don't give me that crap.
We were watching "X Factor."
We told them that again and again.
My whole life you police have taken, every time.
First, my son, then my husband, and then you take my daughter and put her in a uniform, and you take her as well.
16 years, 16 years, she didn't speak to her brother.
Justice?
The only real justice is when you take the law into your own hands.
- I'll find who did this.
- Sure you will.
- Domestic violence arrest.
Husband was drunk.
Wife had called 12 times before.
We made to arrest him, you slammed it in the door.
I got you a pack of frozen peas, sat with you all night in A&E til they could see you.
It was only the tip.
Oh, in the morning, we ate Mars bars, and you told me stuff you'd never told anyone before.
- I've been here for 50 minutes.
I want you to knock 50 minutes off my time.
(melancholy music) - I was a good nurse to you.
Get some steak on that eye.
(melancholy music) - [Rosa] River?
- Yesterday with Tia, you were very, uh- - That's my job, so... - Even so, you were very good with her.
She'll be alright.
- Sectioned?
- She needs medication.
- So that's better for her, is it?
- Not always, for some people, I hope.
- So it's better for the child not to be with its mother, farmed off somewhere.
- You lived with your grandmother, didn't you?
- Yes, til I was 14.
- Where was your mother?
(John scoffs) What sort of day was it, your last day was Stevie?
- They don't come in a neat line, memories.
They come in, in bits and you have to try to... - Piece them together?
- Yeah, it was a slow day.
We'd been working on a case for a long while.
I don't have time for this.
This is, (laughs).
I... it was an ordinary day.
We worked, we had lunch, fast food.
I tried a milkshake, banana.
And for some reason she got into her head that she wanted Chinese, and I agreed to go with it to a restaurant at the end of the day.
What are you writing?
- Just notes for myself.
- So you can detangle, decipher, and decide?
- Yes.
So it was a date that night, you'd gone on a date?
- With Stevie?
- Yes.
- (scoffs) These questions, it's, it's not natural to talk to someone.
- Yet talking to yourself is?
- I'm not talking to myself.
There's always someone there, someone I'm talking to.
Note to self, the patient comments that he always talks to himself.
- Always?
- But what is important is that the patient can control it.
He can distinguish between what's there and what's not, what is real and what's not.
- [Rosa] Can you?
- Yes, I can.
- Have you done this before?
Have you ever been prescribed medication?
There's nothing, nothing on your medical records.
- On applying to the force, I submitted to a full medical examination.
- [Rosa] You know- - Which I passed.
- If you do not declare any medical or psychiatric history- - Successfully.
- River!
- Well, my BMI was a little high.
- You want me to do this report, don't you?
If I don't do this report, what will happen?
- I'll lose my job.
- [Rosa] And then what?
- I'll drink a lot of whiskey.
- And then what?
(clock ticking) - Do you know Marcus McDonald well?
Yes, you do.
Well, since you were asking me questions, I thought...
In about two minutes, that very nice man from the press office will pass this door.
In his hand, he will be holding an official statement for the press who were about to convene, also just a few yards from here.
They will learn that I, I, I chased a man to his death.
I chased an innocent man to his death, although the medical coroner kindly has concluded that it was accidental, which is of very little comfort to his girlfriend.
His girlfriend who's been sectioned.
Although who wouldn't, under the circumstances, go mad?
I'm just telling you in case you'd like to note that down.
(suspenseful music) - [Jackie] They found you out.
I blame myself.
- I'm not listening.
- I tried, but you have no small talk.
It keeps people from asking questions, like weather, football, see anything good on the TV last night?
Try it.
You might surprise yourself.
(phone ringing) - IRA, CCTV pictures, trace his date, last 12 months.
Riley got the car from somewhere.
Tia was talking about someone else.
(suspenseful music) (paper rustling) (suspenseful music) The kid, there, there, there, there, there, there, there.
- Always with a bike.
- Who is he?
I need to talk to Tia again.
Find out where they took her.
I'll meet you downstairs.
(tense music) (car engine whirring) (car honking) - [Ira] Do you want the radio on?
- [John] No.
- Have you ever been to China?
- You see, that's when you could have asked a question?
No.
Why?
(car engine whirring) - I was up reading about it till three.
Baby wouldn't sleep.
Amazing place.
- [Jackie] Now you say something else.
- Uh, the fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco in 1900.
- [Ira] Hm.
Serious?
- Yeah.
- You can trust nothing.
(car engine whirring) (people chattering indistinctly) - Hello.
You were right, Tia.
Riley couldn't have killed dear Stevenson.
I need to find out who did.
- Did I do that?
- That?
Yeah.
- They gave me something.
At least it's quiet here.
- Yes, it is.
(patient laughing) - [Ira] Do you want anything, Tia?
Cup of tea or anything?
- [Tia] No.
- [Ira] Sure?
- I want to show you something.
(suspenseful music) Is he the we?
- Tia?
- Didn't wanna go on my own.
He used to worry, you see.
He used to worry when I, when I feel for the heartbeat, you can't be sure, so, so Bruno came.
- Bruno?
- Yeah.
- He's different to the others.
He's a soft boy, he's kind.
- And he was with you at the hospital that night?
Was he the father?
- He'll make a good Dad.
I thought this time, I thought this time with Bruno, he just wanted to get us a car.
He, he didn't want me going on the bus.
He, he didn't nick it until the next day, the day after that copper got shot.
- He stole the car?
- Yeah, and as soon as Riley saw it, what you wanted it.
He didn't care that it was hot.
There was nothing we could do.
- So we need to talk to Bruno to tell him that, to tell him it's okay.
We just need to know where you got the car from.
- You're gonna take the baby away, definitely now.
- So you need to show them that you're okay.
You need to take your medication.
You need to tell us where my Bruno is.
Maybe with his help, you can keep the baby.
Maybe he can be the good Dad until you're well again.
You're all right, Tia.
Even as you are, you're all right.
Not everyone fits in this world.
You hear me?
We can do this.
We're all right.
We just have to... - Pretend?
- Yeah.
(melancholy music) - Oh, is it now?
Bruno, I, I need Bruno.
- [John] We can get him.
Tell us where he is.
- [Ira] That's him.
- Bruno, Bruno stop, it's okay!
(dramatic music) Slow down, you don't need to run!
(dramatic music) Bruno, I know you stole the car.
Where from?
(Bruno panting) - I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- We know everything, Bruno.
We talked to Tia.
- Wh-, is she all right?
Is she all right?
Is it coming?
Is it coming now?
- You have to tell me who you stole the car from.
(Bruno panting) So it was dumped here?
- I came in early.
Someone was dropping it off.
- Who?
- I couldn't see.
It's dark in the winter.
He was wearing this old coat.
Just dumped it at the gate.
I called to him, but he kept walking, so I took it.
(suspenseful music) She'll need her bag.
- [Ira] We can get her bag.
- It's all back at Riley's flat.
Look, she needs her stuff, like nappies and, please.
- Okay.
(melancholy music) (door clattering) - [Bruno] It's, it's all in here.
(melancholy music) - She's better off with him than me, even if he's just a kid.
I only went out for a milkshake.
(melancholy music) - I'm so sorry.
(melancholy music) (players shouting indistinctly) - [Player] Give me the ball, give me the ball, ah!
- [Ira] What do we tell Chrissie?
- We traced the car to the scrapyard, anonymous tip off.
- We need to get an ID on the man who dropped off the car.
- We'll talk to Bruno in the morning.
Let's give them the night.
- [Ira] Do you think they'll be alright?
- I hope so.
- I don't know what I'd do if my baby was taken away.
- You rush people.
Don't rush people.
- Right, right.
(sighs) What am I doing here?
- You were assigned.
- I've got a masters in IT, six years experience on violent crime.
I don't know what I'm doing here, (cars whirring) and I'm gonna be late for the quiz.
Tonight, Terry mentioned it, in logistics.
Do you talk to anyone?
- Not if I can help it.
- And you should clean your car.
If you clean your car, it might make you feel better.
There's people do that for you, you know?
You pay them and they put this stuff on your tires, makes your tires look new.
A bit greasy, but new.
- [John] Stevie always- - Yes.
- When it got bad, she'd always tell me, so.
- So I'm doing the same.
(car engines whirring) I had an aunt, used to talk to herself.
- Did you like her?
- She tried to strangle my uncle, Ralph.
(John chuckles) - What time is the quiz?
- Eight.
- You don't wanna be late.
(tense music) (tense music continues) (footsteps falling) - [Stevie] Close your eyes.
- [John] I'm trying to work.
- Close your eyes.
What can you remember?
- Your eyes, they're greenish, nose longish, hair brown, on bits sometimes.
I don't remember.
Teeth, too many teeth, top lip thin.
- You're useless at this.
- Your cheeks explode when you laugh.
- You need to tell them what we talked about that night.
- I don't remember.
- Liar.
This is your way of helping with my passing.
- What passing?
You're still here!
You're still here.
- River?
- Your questions, yes, I've taken medication before, no, I've never disclosed this, yes, Stevie helped me control my condition, no, I've never been formally diagnosed.
Yes, I'm aware this is breach of police protocol.
When was the last time I spoke to a friend?
I don't have any.
The only one I have, had, is dead now.
(officer laughing) (melancholy music) I'm a, I'm a good officer, but in this world, that's not enough.
In this world, you have to be able to nod and smile and drink a pint and say, "How was your day?"
In this world, no one can be different, or strange, or damaged, huh?
I lock it up.
(John sighing) So, so what do I do?
(melancholy music) What do I do now?
- You keep talking.
(melancholy music) (suspenseful music) (door bangs) (engine whirring) (tense music) (paper rustling) (tense music) - [Stevie] I was charging it, donut.
So I had second phone.
(tense music) (distorted music) ♪ Romancing ♪ ♪ I'm giving it all tonight ♪ ♪ I'm in the mood for chancing ♪ ♪ I feel like dancing ♪ ♪ So come on, and hold me tight ♪ ♪ Dancing, I'm in the mood, babe ♪ Go on, try it.
Pretend.
You might surprise yourself.
♪ Body sway ♪ ♪ I'm in the mood for dancing, romancing ♪ ♪ You know I shan't ever stop tonight ♪ ♪ I'm in the mood for chancing ♪ ♪ I feel like dancing ♪ ♪ Ooh from head to my toes ♪ ♪ Take me again, and heaven who knows ♪ ♪ Just where it will end ♪ ♪ So dance, yeah, let's dance ♪ ♪ Come on and dance ♪ ♪ Ooh-Ooh, ooh-ooh, ♪ ♪ ooh-ooh-Ooh, ooh-ooh ♪ ♪ Dance, yeah, let's dance ♪ ♪ Come on and dance, ooh-ooh-ooh ♪
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